Is there a way to reach or be near that speed wirelessly? If there is, a 10/100 router with 802.11n would do it, or would I need a gigabit router with 802.11n. Thanks mstargard, I connected my laptop via ethernet cable to my router and copied files to the My Bool Live and get a speed of about 10MB/s most of the time. Internet Service Providers quote the same kind of thing and rely on that detail of wording to justify network management practices that throttle the rate of some services to less than 1% of the advertised maximum speed. I don’t speak for WDC, but when I see that a device or service will deliver speeds *up to* some value, I interpret that to mean it will deliver speeds less than or equal to the advertised value. So to summarize, you can get the maximum advertised speed emptying the cache of the MBL under the correct conditions. If these are primed, then you can read at way more than 100 MB/s - probably beyond a GB/s, *HOWEVER* your read limit will be limited by the Gig network card in the MBL to 100MB/s. Additionally, there are filesystem caches in the MBL. The internal hard disk cannot physically support reads from the platter at a sustained rate of 100 MB/s, however, it has a cache.You’ll need a decent quality Gig switch, or connect directly to the MBL with a crossover, and be using Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable of the correct length, and be able to accept 100MB/s at the receiving end.The product will deliver 100 MegaBytes per second throughput under the correct conditions. “PD: I bought the drive from amazon and one of the pictures displays 100MB/s speed and before the image, quote “this product delivers read speeds up to 100 MBps.” There’s a problem with that, right?” If you’re using a Gigabit wired network and a laptop computer, then your rate will be limited by your laptop’s slow 5400RPM hard disk to something around 15MB/s. If you’re using wireless networking, then it’s the wireless network that’s the limiting factor. Your data rate will be limited by the slowest link in the path between your computer’s hard disk and the MBL’s hard disk. I get rates between 5MB/s and 10MB/s in that band. In the 5GHz spectrum, base signalling rates can be as high a 450Mb/s which would lead you to believe that you can get rates around 50MB/s. It can use the older 2.4GHz spectrum, which is crowded and noisy, or the 5GHz spectrum which has a lot more room.
At best I’ve gotten about 2.5MB/s over g. 802.11g has a max signalling rate of 54Mb/s per channel, which translates to about 5MB/s throughput in theory. The difference between 802.11g and n is not as great as you might have hoped in practical terms. “So, the 802.11n or 802.11g connection does not make any difference? Correct me if I’m wrong in anything, thanks.”īy far, the wireless protocols offer much lower throughput than using a wire.